Xu Aoxin stared at the Heaven-Piercing Steps before her. She could hardly imagine they had formed naturally.
But if they hadn't, then a whole group of Tier 9 Powerhouses must have built them like laborers serving a sentence.
Either possibility seemed unbelievable to her.
Just then, Yu Xiaogang said, half joking,
"Perhaps there's a more reasonable explanation."
At his words, Xu Aoxin and Chen Ming turned to him.
"What explanation?"
Xu Aoxin asked.
"You keep saying it would take a whole group of Tier 9 Powerhouses to do this. Why couldn't someone stronger than a Tier 9 Powerhouse have done it?"
"Surely you wouldn't need a whole group of them."
Yu Xiaogang smiled.
"A Level Ten Powerhouse who exists only in legends and fantasy?"
Xu Aoxin frowned.
It wasn't that Yu Xiaogang's suggestion made no sense. It was just that, on the Sun Moon Continent, Level Ten Powerhouses were nothing more than a fantasy.
No record had ever clearly stated that Level Ten existed above Tier 9.
And as a princess of the Sun Moon Empire, Xu Aoxin had once asked her father about it when he was nearing the peak of Tier 9.
What had Father said back then?
Xu Aoxin thought back. She had asked out of simple curiosity.
And her father had answered as though he were humoring a child.
"No Level Ten Powerhouse has ever appeared in the history of the Sun Moon Continent. People consider them a legend."
"But since Aoxin is so curious, she can explore it for herself once she reaches Tier 9."
Looking back, her father hadn't explicitly denied that Level Ten existed.
Could Level Ten Powerhouses really exist?
Xu Aoxin gazed at Azure Cloud Road ahead of her, puzzled.
"...But how could that be? Even leaving aside whether Level Ten Powerhouses